lockyno1 said:
Best catch would have to be probally Pontings catch. I think it is fractionally better than Astle's only becuase he was moving backwards.
I didn;t think Ponting's was that great to be honest.
IMO Hussey's taken one or two screamers this year that beat Ponting's.
Astle's was better IMO beacuse of the "hang-time", and the was he casually looked down to make sure that he would land fair. But everyone had assumed it was 6, and Astle made it look simple...
Certainly, of the ones I've seen, Astle's two and Sinclair's one are the best Kiwi efforts, a few people have mentioned Crowe catching Houghton, and the one nobody has mentioned (so I will), was Snedden's "no-catch" off Greg Chappell in the under-arm match... stunner. Also, Patel took a simialr one off McDermott a few years back - close to the boundary, more like Ponting's though, not in Astle's league for mine... Greg Dyer took an amazing catch off Andrew Jones too
Obviously I haven't seen as many Aussie catches (and am not so inclinded to recall them
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), but certainly some of the ones Mark Taylor took at first slip left me speechless. Mark Waugh was a much better fielder than Astle, but had the same ability to make the very difficult look very easy.
The likes of Viv Richards and Gus Logie also too some unbelievable ones - but we're all going to have a bias towards matches our countries played in.